Upgrade For Wow

Puppetmaster · 8 Jan 2010 at 18:35

I play wow fair amount and looking to upgrade for some better performance. Im not looking to moving to I7 yet and i suspect that leaves me with little choice but il ask anyway.

Current specs:

Q9550 @ 3.4GHz
Ati 4870 1GB @ Stock
2x 2GB Ocz Gold Memory @ 800mhz (Rated for 1066)
Asus Maximus Forumla II Mobo

Using an Acer G24 (1920 x 1200) and a 19" Samsung as second monitor (1280 x 1024)

I Run the game @ 1920 x 1200 with all settings maxxed apart from shadows, they are 1 or 2 down (ruin fps outside)

Any ideas? Would a new graphics card help at all?

Thanks

Puppetmaster · 8 Jan 2010 at 18:41

Do you mean 4gb more? as i have 4gb currently , 2 sticks of 2gb.

Fps most of the time is fine, but in 25man raids on bosses or stuff with a lot of aoe, i get between well 10 and 25 i guess. Fights like anub 25man hc detroys my fps, sometimes below 10

edit: my cpu is watercooled, should probably over clock more. Not tried a lot.

Puppetmaster · 9 Jan 2010 at 11:37

Using Vista 64 Home Prem

I will try ocing my cpu some more. I was running it at 3.5ghz a few months ago, but then pc refused to boot till i dropped it a bit, might of just been a blip.

Wow doesnt support sli or xfire so getting a 2nd card is pointless.

But yeh wow doesnt seem to run well anyway.

A year ago when i built the pc it seemed to run wow pretty good even in aoe fights but now its fair bit slower.

I doubt its an internet thing, as i dont lag in the game but the fps physically is low.

My server has a huge population and can lag sometimes, but as said my fps is low.

Do you think upgrading to Win 7 64 would boost performance much?

Puppetmaster · 10 Jan 2010 at 03:26

Hoodlum said:
What he said. I'd be surprised if that alone didn't do it.

Warcraft doesnt support crossfire or sli so i doubt it would

Puppetmaster · 18 Jan 2010 at 11:08

Overclocked my cpu a bit more to 3570 Mhz. Will try more but that was only a quick overclock. Didnt notice any difference.

When wow is running and ive got media centre sometimes open plus other stuff, Im using around 3 - 3.25 GB of ram. Do you think upgrading to 8gb would have any boost in performance?

Puppetmaster · 18 Jan 2010 at 12:40

Hmm that looks like a cracking find. I've not heard about that before - will definatly try that when i get home

Thanks